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This quantity is the 4th in a chain focussing on concerns in Coordination, corporations, associations and Norms (COIN) in multi-agent platforms. The 17 papers contained during this quantity are the revised and prolonged types of a range of papers awarded and mentioned in those workshops. The papers are geared up within the following topical sections: from coordination to association, from association to coordination, formalization of norms and associations, layout of norms and associations, in addition to applications.
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In the following, we propose to use a general message format consisting of a sender, a performative and the actual content. Observations must have the same format as agent beliefs. 26 B. van der Vecht et al. Table 5. An ontology of event-processing rules that describe organizational rules Rule element Description Head External event that triggers the rule Guard Situational constraints Body Effect on agent’s mental state Possible values - message( Sender, Performative, Content ) - observation( Content ) Any belief set of the agent - AddGoal( Goal ) - AddBelief( Belief ) - IgnoreEvent( ) The guards of the event-processing rules are restrictions based on internal beliefs of the agent.
Note that the number and types of tasks that must be completed for an individual job to be completed is therefore continually changing. 2 Selection Mechanism Agents operating in the environment described above face two primary decisions: what jobs to work on, and what agents to partner with. More precisely, freelance agents fulfill one of two roles at any given moment, and make different decisions in each of these roles. In the first role, an agent takes a proactive “foreman” role and has the ability to select both an available job to work on, and a team of agents capable of solving the currently active tasks associated with that job.
Job heuristics attempt to maximize agent profit by selecting attractive jobs, while team heuristics attempt to select teams that are structured to handle sudden changes in the environment or inside the team itself. The first job selection heuristic is the pre-normalized Greedy heuristic (Eqn. 1) that maximizes the expected reward from a job Jj. While a naive heuristic would simply choose jobs that require the greatest amount of work (and thus the greatest amount of associated reward), the Greedy heuristic takes the dynamicism of the environment into account by giving double weight to portions of a task that have already been Combining Job and Team Selection Heuristics 39 completed, thereby giving preferential treatment to large jobs that are less likely to undergo changes before the job is complete.